Pasta Recipes

From spaghetti to rigatoni, penne to ravioli, here’s where you’ll find all the luscious, scrumptious, mouthwatering, irresistible pasta recipes on The Pioneer Woman. Noodle lovers, look no further! Here’s where all the carb magic happens.

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Note: Since this recipe is featured on the Food Network episode this morning, I’m bringing it to the front for easy reference. This really is one of my favorite recipes here on The Pioneer Woman Cooks, and I regularly hear from people who’ve made it with great success. [...] Keep Reading

You’ll have to bear with me as I share this recipe, which started out as a chicken recipe with wine and pasta and ended as a pasta recipe with whiskey and wine. Long story. But I had to follow my heart. Just know this: no matter how I got to the end, it was worth it. [...] Keep Reading

I found some smoked Gouda at my lovely little local grocery store yesterday, and I knew immediately what I was going to make. It’s a pasta salad based loosely on one I tried from Whole Foods a couple of weeks ago, one brought to the Lodge by recent guests. I can’t remember all [...] Keep Reading

I finally have basil in my garden. Basil I can use. This is a huge development. I had no basil during the winter. None. Growing anything outdoors in northeastern Oklahoma from October through March is not possible, and I wasn’t organized enough to start indoor plants for my kitchen [...] Keep Reading

(Shown above: Pasta with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce.) If I were stranded on a desert island and could choose only one category of food to eat the rest of my life, I’d pick pasta hands-down. Here’s how much I love pasta: I love pasta in the morning. I love pasta at night. I love [...] Keep Reading

I woke up yesterday knowing I was going to make vegetable lasagna of some kind. It was meant to be, it was in the cards, it was predestined…it was fate. And I can’t explain my hankering at all. I simply woke up, got out of bed, and followed the light. I made vegetable lasagna [...] Keep Reading

Yesterday, after a weekend of brisket, chocolate cake, and innumerable other naughty delights, suddenly all I wanted was a cold, healthy salad. I eventually came to my senses and decided to include pasta in the mix, and threw in tomatoes, zucchini, and—the best part—lots of [...] Keep Reading

I included this recipe in the Black Heels book because it’s one of the first (disastrous) things I cooked for Marlboro Man when we were dating. It was my favorite pasta dish from my favorite restaurant in all of Los Angeles: Intermezzo in West Hollywood. Intermezzo was where my friends and [...] Keep Reading

I’m always so busy making meals for the six people in my family (three of whom are boys and will eat me out of house and home if I don’t say my prayers right), I sometimes forget that not all households are swarming with millions of hungry mouths. So last night I whipped up a [...] Keep Reading

This is yummy. This is simple. This was dinner last night. The kids loved it. Marlboro Man loved it. Amen. Everyone loves stuffed pasta shells—even people who don’t think they like stuffed pasta shells. It’s just that they don’t know they love them yet. But they [...] Keep Reading

I have a bit of a problem. It’s an addiction to light orange-red pasta sauces. There’s this one: Pasta alla Vodka. Proceed with caution. It’s addictive. And there’s this one: Pasta with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce. Ridiculously yummy. And of [...] Keep Reading

I had some visitors on the ranch last week. I made the beds, dusted the furniture, and did what any self-respecting hostess would do: I bought ‘em a bunch of ready-made salads at Whole Foods, stuck ‘em in the fridge at the Lodge, and left my guests a note that read “Have [...] Keep Reading

This meal took about fifteen minutes to make. It was so easy. But more than that, it was absolutely delicious. And now for the truth: I am a leek…freak. I absolutely love the things. I have my most favorite pizza recipe in the world in my cookbook—it’s topped with leeks, [...] Keep Reading

I have another lemon pasta recipe on this site, and it’s always been a summertime favorite of mine. If you haven’t traveled to the land of mixing lemon and pasta, it can seem a little foreign at first. But the fact is, it’s a dreamy and delicious pairing that knocks my [...] Keep Reading

Man, was this ever good. I should back up and apologize from the bottom of my heart for loving pasta so much. But you see, the whole point of a website called “The Pioneer Woman Cooks” is to show you what The Pioneer Woman is cooking. I call myself The Pioneer Woman. I cook a [...] Keep Reading

I’ll just say it: I’m on a pasta kick lately. I’d like to believe—and in fact, I’m telling myself daily—that the sudden uptick in pasta dishes I’ve been making is being spurned on by some kind of deficiency deep within my body. A carb deficiency, [...] Keep Reading

This is the second of two chicken-centered pantry meals I made last week after discovering a slew of chicken legs that were close to their expiration date. Any chicken pieces can be substituted—I actually love thighs the best—and you can throw in whatever other ingredients [...] Keep Reading

This is how you make Chicken Piccata when you’re out of capers and you have a pathological fear of cooking anything without adding heavy cream. At least it’s how I make it. This is a really delicious quick and easy chicken-and-pasta dish with a strong lemon flavor and the [...] Keep Reading

I love—I mean love—making spaghetti and meatballs. Oh, don’t get me wrong—I love eating it, too. But if I had to choose forever between cooking it and eating it…well, wait a minute. I don’t know which I’d choose. Never eating spaghetti and [...] Keep Reading

I’m not going to say much. Just this: Make this sometime over the holidays. Serve it on Christmas Eve with your roast beef. Serve it the day after Christmas with a big Caesar salad. Eat it straight out of the pan after you’ve wrapped your last gift at 11:47 on Christmas Eve. [...] Keep Reading

Saturday, April 4: Freezer Fundamentals! While ranch work is going on outside, freezer work is going on inside! I share four more of my favorite freezer basics, which can be made into a whole bunch of different meals.